I've updated the app to save the last selected location - let me know if it doesn't work for you on Windows..

Works like a champ - thanks! That will really enhance the user-friendliness.

I guess the only thing that I can say right now, and it's hardly a show-stopper: It opens that location in the "list" view. My folder has several years worth of puzzles, just because...well, just because. So my normal process is to change the look to "details" view, click the "date modified" column to sort by date, and then I'll find the puzzle as probably the top-most entry, or certainly quite close to the top, no matter what its name.

So in my ideal world, it would retain that view and sorting. I don't know if that excites you, or if it's even feasible, but that would be the proverbial icing on the cake.

For whatever reason, the puzzles posted here get corrupted when they have accented characters. Your best bet is to get the puzzles from the source, i.e. http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/Washing ... YYMMDD.jpz . Unfortunately, that one is too old to be in the archive, so I think you're out of luck.

it's a question of encodings. the .puz format wants iso-8859-1, but the .jpz tends to be in utf8. there's presumably an easy fix, but i'm too lazy to trawl through the source code to figure out what it is. also, i haven't used java in a good ten years, and presumably you could determine as easily as i how java handles text encodings.

it's a question of encodings. the .puz format wants iso-8859-1, but the .jpz tends to be in utf8. there's presumably an easy fix, but i'm too lazy to trawl through the source code to figure out what it is. also, i haven't used java in a good ten years, and presumably you could determine as easily as i how java handles text encodings.

It is a question of encodings, but I don't think it's that simple. The jpz file posted above (as well as the one with the same problem on the first page) causes this error:

In plainer English, it means that the jpz isn't valid UTF-8, so it doesn't know what to do with it. For the other puzzle, when I got a copy from the Washington Post instead of on here, there was no such corruption. So something is happening to the puzzles posted here that makes them invalid, and I'm not sure what, which makes it hard to know how to fix.

Thanks for the report - see updated version in OP, which fixes the "%" from that puzzle, the fancy quotes from the 06/06 puzzle (by replacing with regular quotes, the simplest fix), as well as the "+" sign disappearing.

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